A fictional biography told as if written by Saint Joan's page and secretary. He relates Joan's brief life and stormy career with understanding and admiration that grew after her death.
This historical novel purportedly written by Joan's longtime friend -- Sieur Louis de Conte -- discloses Twain's unrestrained admiration for the French heroine's nobility of character.
A fictional biography told as if written by Saint Joan's page and secretary. He relates Joan's brief life and stormy career with understanding and admiration that grew after her death.
This is Twain's celebration of the ideal woman: gentle, selfless, and pure, but also brave, courageous, and eloquent.
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The Diaries of Adam and Eve
And for all reward, the French King, whom she had crowned, stood supine and indifferent, while French priests took the noble child, the most inno cent, the most lovely, the most adorable the ages have produced, and burned her alive at the ...
I, THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE, was born in Neufchateau, on the 6th of January, 1410; that is to say, exactly two years before Joan of Arc was born in Domremy.
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Volume 1 of 2. Mark Twain's Historical Novel on the life of Joan of Arc.
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